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Teaser: The Compromises of Al Levitt · Revisionist History

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  Speaker 1: uninterrupted listening and bonus content from other Pushkin shows. The
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  Speaker 1: beginning of Al's life is similar to Helen's in many ways.
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  Speaker 1: Like her, he grew up in New York, joined the
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  Speaker 1: Young Communist League in college. After he and Helen got married,
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  Speaker 1: they drove across the country to start a new life
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  Speaker 1: in Hollywood. All dreamed of becoming a screenwriter, but his
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  Speaker 1: timing was bad.
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  Speaker 2: You're on the verge of being hired as a screenwriter
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  Speaker 2: and you get drafted, right, what happens?
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  Speaker 3: Then?
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  Speaker 2: So was the only one in Los Angeles that sent
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  Speaker 2: people out of Los Angeles for the physical, that put
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  Speaker 2: me in a bus, sent me to Fresno with a
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  Speaker 2: group of others from that draft board for my physical
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  Speaker 2: and then back. I mean it was really insane. And
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  Speaker 2: then when I went into the Army, I was stationed
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  Speaker 2: at Culver City at what was familiarly known as Fort
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  Speaker 2: Roach for year and a half. You know about Fort Roach,
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  Speaker 2: I assume Herod Studios. It was the Howard Studios that
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  Speaker 2: were taken over by the government for the First Motion
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  Speaker 2: Picture Unit.
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  Speaker 1: The First Motion Picture Unit was part of the Army
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  Speaker 1: Air Forces during the Second World War. They made training
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  Speaker 1: films and newsreels.
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  Speaker 3: She was a B twenty nine the Superport, with twenty
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  Speaker 3: two hundred horsepower in each of four engines, with a
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  Speaker 3: fuel capacity equal to that of a railroad tank car,
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  Speaker 3: a tail that climbed two stories into the air, a
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  Speaker 3: body longer than a Corvette.
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  Speaker 1: Avid listeners of revisionist history may not just recognize that voice,
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  Speaker 1: but the very clip run of Reagan narrated many of
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  Speaker 1: these films. Red loving al Levitt and Red Baiting run
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  Speaker 1: of Reagan were actually co workers.
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  Speaker 2: Every day for a year and a half, I would
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  Speaker 2: see Nan, then called Reagan who arrived at the post.
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  Speaker 2: He arrived there before I did, but he arrived from
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  Speaker 2: a cavalry outfit wearing jod present a campaign hat, and
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  Speaker 2: nobody could take him seriously. From then on he was laughingstock.
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